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Description: | A collection of fine and decorative art belonging to the Dundee Dental Hospital & School (now part of the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside). Much of the collection relates to two local businessmen, William Rettie and William Boyd, who were instrumental in founding and managing the hospital in its early years. Both were important private art collectors and gifted various works to the hospital, as well as having works gifted in their memory. The collection includes a large William McTaggart seascape gifted by William Boyd, portraits of important figures in the history of the hospital and school by James McIntosh Patrick and Leslie Gordon Kinnear, bronze busts by Benno Schotz (whose first significant patron in Scotland was Boyd), three decorative glass pieces gifted by the Rettie family and two large stained glass windows, one installed in 1917 as a memorial to Rettie's son Philip, killed in the war, and one by Douglas Strachan (an unused design submitted by the artist for the windows of the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle) installed in 1930 in Rettie's memory. More recently, the Dental Education Centre has purchased student artworks from the Duncan of Jordanstone College Degree Show which are also now part of the collection. | Format: | sculpture paintings decorative art stained glass | Subjects: | Health and Medicine Decorative and Applied Art Dentistry Fine Art | Source: | University of Dundee | Address: | 5-7 Hawkhill Place,
DD1 4HN | Creator: | William Boyd, William Rettie, Dundee Dental Hospital & School | Contributor: | The collections of Dundee Dental Hospital & School were accessioned by Museum Services from 1996 onwards, and are regarded as the joint property of the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside | Identifier: | DUNUC-CLD012 | Language: | en-GB | Relation: | DUNUC-CLD000 | Format: | sculpture paintings decorative art stained glass |
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